Learn all about trees and their value to the community in this brand-new article, Trees: New Ways to Look at an Old Resource from Contributing Writer Terry Hain. Terry gives 21 benefits of trees and explains how clear cutting has been a major problem for centuries.
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When I was a grade school pupil (now, even little kids are called “students”?) we were told if we don’t stop cutting down trees the world was about to end. Image teaching little kids in a city no less not to cut down trees. As if trees were being cut down for meanness and something more to feel guilty about. Foresting is difficult and perhaps the most dangerous way to make a living.
We eat corn products and wheat and rice and beans and potatoes and green vegetables. We eat meat of animals that eat grass. We eat fruits and nuts from orchards.
None of his happens in forests.
Sixty years ago I worked a thousand miles up the Amazon River to start a small Oil refinery vicinity Manaus. For those thousand miles and many more there were only trees and rivers. No roads, no bridges, no cities or towns and almost no food production.
The aborigines ate monkeys and fish (piranha) ate humans.
Alas, now cutting of the Amazonas is getting serious. The problem is not venal or uninformed humans but too many humans. We are 7 billion and growing about 0.1 billion a year. In 1000 C.E. we were 0.3 billion world-wide which is only 3 years of current growth rate.